Improvement in bedstead-fastenings



L'MAY. I y l :Impr-ovve'mejnt in Beds'ead-Fastenings. No..127,25^5. Y Partanna May 28,1872.

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LEANDER MAY, OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEDSTEAD-FASTENINGS.l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,255, dated May 28, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Bedstead Fastening, invented by LEANDER MAY, of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee and State of Georgia.

This invention .relates to the construction of bedsteads; and consists in the mode of fastening the rails to the posts, hereinafter described. m

In the acompanying drawing', Figure l is an inside view of the fastening. Fig. 2 represents a face view of the post. Fig. 3 is a section of the rail, showing the fastening-hook, taken on the line of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of the iron plate that is placed in the post. Fig. 5 is the hook or iron attached to the rail.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the rail. B is the post. The rail is provided with one or more hooks, C, inserted into it, as seen in Fig. 3. The portion of the hook that is in the rail is covered by a separate pieceof wood, D, glued or fastened to the rail, as represented. The hook C eX- tends out from the end of the rail one inch, more or less, with the hook of the fastening end preferably rounded, as seen at E, Fig. 4, to allow it tol engage more readily with the iron in the post. The face of the post has a mortise for each hook, as seen at F F, of sufficient size to admit the projecting hooks of the rail and allow of a -downWa-rd movement after insertion. G is the fastening-plate, which `this part I that the hook J of the rail engages.

These plates are inserted into the posts through' slots cut (by a circular saw or otherwise) on the inside, the slots being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The plates (as inserted) are also seen in dotted lines in the same ligure. When the plates are inserted the slots may be filled with strips of wood in any manner to exclude vermin. The hooks and plates `may be made of any kind of iron or other metal, but I prefer wrought or malleable iron,

especially for the hooks.

Having thus described my invention, what I cla-im as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

A bedstead-fastening consisting ofthe hook C and plate G, one or more for each fastening, when the same are attached to the rail and to thepost, substantially/'in the manner described.

LEANDER MAY. Witnesses:

D. Q. ABBOTT, S. H. HILL. 

